ANTHROP 2EE3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nancy Ammerman, Alterity, General Order
16 Sep 2018
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Lecture #2: sport is a religious phenomena because it is a locus of meaning- making and connection making that provides athletes and fans with opportunity to attempt to transcend self and mortality. Defining religion: definitions re aids for thinking, not pigeonholes. Institutions and concepts are socially constructed, contested and in flux. Thomas csordas: u of california category id a product of the west christian tradition. Geertz and csordas: combine meaning-centered approach from geertz with csordas insights about. Alterity: religion: a social phenomena that enables people to attempt, to transcend individual isolation, to interpret their experience in a meaningful way and, to transcend the ultimate manifestation of alterity which is death. Implicit religion: edward bailey, journal implicit religion important, and the concrete practices that make up their personal religious, cant separate lived religion from practices of everyday life. Meredith mcguire: lived religion: faith and practice in everyday life own lives.
